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Transmission

S2E1: Don't take it for granted

If we imagine a health system as a box, then what would it contain? And what happens if it gets shaken – by a conflict, a pandemic or even something as seemingly unrelated as structural traffic jams? Join us, as we travel from the Syrian war zone to a remote Indian community fighting addiction... with frisbees.
Broadcast on:
23 May 2024

If we imagine a health system as a box, then what would it contain? And what happens if it gets shaken – by a conflict, a pandemic or even something as seemingly unrelated as structural traffic jams? Join us, as we travel from the Syrian war zone to a remote Indian community fighting addiction... with frisbees.  

For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.

This episode features:

  • Lenka Beňová, maternal health expert, Head of the Unit of Maternal and Reproductive Health (ITM)
  • Bruno Marchal, health care organisation specialist, Head of the Unit of Health Systems Organisation  (ITM)
  • Christopher Kenyon, medical doctor and STI expert, Head of the Unit of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ITM)
  • Saleh Aljadeeah, pharmacist and researcher, Unit of Pharmaceutical Public Health (ITM)
  • Prashanth N Srinivas, medical doctor and researcher, Head of Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Bengaluru, India
  • Tim Devriese, journalist

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To learn more about ITM's research on sustainable health systems, visit  www.itg.be/health-systems

 

Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

Creation & Production: Sonhouse 

Narrator: Lara Chedraoui

If we imagine a health system as a box, then what would it contain? And what happens if it gets shaken – by a conflict, a pandemic or even something as seemingly unrelated as structural traffic jams? Join us, as we travel from the Syrian war zone to a remote Indian community fighting addiction... with frisbees.